Example sentences of "to be alive " in BNC.
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| 1 | People milled about the room , shaking hands , saying things like : ‘ Hello , I 'm Jane , and I have a right to be alive . ’ |
| 2 | She needed Rachel to stay alive , but she needed Phoebe to be alive . |
| 3 | TENS OF thousands of phantom azalea bushes and geraniums are believed to be alive and growing in the gardens of Northern Ireland after the discovery of alleged false accounting . |
| 4 | Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive , but to be a full member of the Exchange Rate Mechanism was very Heaven . |
| 5 | ‘ My dear , she said , ‘ limited grey matter Miss Lilian may have , yet still she rejoices to be alive . |
| 6 | ‘ Bliss it was that dawn to be alive ’ a quote from Wordsworth , but it is how I feel as we embark on this new decade . |
| 7 | When the body is elastic , the strain converts kinetic into potential energy … like drawing the string of a longbow , or winding the spring of a clock , or charging an electrical condensor , or filling a balloon with hot air … and it looks to be alive . |
| 8 | Fire Brigade Station Commander Bruce Hoad said : ‘ The children are very lucky to be alive . |
| 9 | ‘ They are both lucky to be alive , ’ said Roberta Feggans , a senior nurse . |
| 10 | Eventually the two boys were lying exhausted on the floor , relieved to be alive . |
| 11 | Also in the house were two children , no doubt lucky to be alive , as Mrs Dyer usually despatched her charges within a few hours of receiving them . |
| 12 | He really took it out of this photographer , and I can tell you he 's lucky to be alive today . |
| 13 | You will feel it 's good to be alive whatever the weather . |
| 14 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 15 | We may have had gangrene , amputations , even paralysis but , too young to see any futility , we were only too glad to be alive . |
| 16 | It was sure great to be alive . |
| 17 | After a brief pause , we blurted out the obvious opener , ‘ How does it feel to be alive again after all this time ? ’ |
| 18 | They need to be alive to the balance between their own needs for intimacy and independence as well as those of their partner . |
| 19 | The obstacle is Joe 's wife , Kate , who , three years after Larry 's plane has gone down , believes him to be alive . |
| 20 | As he points out , the other man was killed and he knows he is lucky to be alive . |
| 21 | She grew up believing that she had no right to be alive , let alone deserved any happiness . |
| 22 | Her core beliefs were ‘ I have no right to be alive ’ and , with somewhat convoluted logic , ‘ I am being forced to stay alive as a punishment for being born . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm so glad to be alive . |
| 24 | ‘ I just woke up one morning and I felt glad to be alive , and glad that I was n't on this earth on my own , that there were other people to share it with me and help me get through my life . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm still thankful to be alive and eating three meals a day . |
| 26 | Comfort foods are those which soothe us and make us glad to be alive even on the most miserable of days . |
| 27 | I am just lucky to be alive . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ There is no doubt the people involved are lucky to be alive , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ I am lucky to be alive . ’ |
| 30 | How gorgeous it was to be alive ! |